Visual Broadcast
Like any living thing, a city looks different when it sleeps. The usually populated streets are suddenly sparse and laden with a dark, voluminous void. And there is poetry in the still, unbroken quiet that translates in images. It was eighty years ago that Brassaï was wandering the darkened streets of Paris capturing the glow...
If you’re a regular visitor to Visual Broadcast, you’ll know we’re huge fans of papercraft, and you just might recall an article I wrote back in May 2016 presenting twelve...
Almost a year ago, we published an article about Loving Vincent, the Van Gogh biopic animated entirely from oil paintings. In anticipation of its release, let’s take a look at...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… A robot walks into a bar. The bartender says, “we don’t serve robots.” The robot replies, “no, but one day you will.”...
I’m hesitant to say it, but explosions are damn cool. Everyone likes marvelling at fireworks in a cold field, where your breath hangs in front of you like mist. The...
The Turner Prize, as you know, is an annual art prize that gets people engaging with contemporary art. Everyone loves to tut at an oblique and apparently frivolous artwork, but...
It’s probably fair to say that men have it pretty easy when it comes to our wardrobes. We don’t have nearly the same level of choice, required functionality or cultural...
We rely on our eyes for almost everything we do. In fact, 50% of the brain’s cortex is devoted to vision alone. But our eyes cannot always be relied upon...
A beacon in the cool, dark night. Warm and bright, filled with drama, these lights transform the space around. French photographer Nicolas Rivals installed these red lights in wild, natural...
Visionary artist William Blake was born in Soho on the 28th November 1757. He left school at ten to attend a drawing academy in the Strand and read voraciously, going...
Sebastian Copeland cares immensely about the Arctic. It is a beautiful terrain, characterised by an ever-thinning skin of ice across which hardy creatures roam. He documents it sensitively, with beautiful...
